The inland waterways:

• The Historic Narrowboat Owners Club canal pages.
• The Fenland web site.

Operating Systems:

• The pages of RISC OS Ltd. who took over the operating system originally developed by Acorn for their ARM based Archimedes and subsequent ARM based machines. I've been using this system for a long time now and still prefer it for general desktop use.
• Probably one of the more interesting operating systems arround today is BeOS This runs on Pentium compatible PCs and quite a bit of PowerPC based hardware (including the BeBox, Be's own system and various Power Macintosh systems although sadly not the G3 ones). It is especially well suited to dealing with digital media and is fast, stable and very user friendly. Be have now decided to concentrate on internet appliances, which is probably good for them but it is a shame to see another operating system move away from the desktop.
• The NetBSD operating system. Rather a nice clean implementation of BSD Unix, very widely ported to different architectures. I have personally used it on ARM, SPARC and M68K systems. Also check out OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
• Perhaps one of the most talked about operating systems at the moment is Linux, of course 'Linux' is only really the OS kernel. A lot of confusion.org is run using the Debian Linux distribution which is both comprehensive and has a particularly powerful package management system (indeed, this is where it really wins other Linux distributions).
• Apple deserve a mention in this section as well for Mac OS X. I have recently been running the public beta of this. It looks like a very nice operating system indeed.

Computer hardware:

• Since RISC OS has been in the hands of RISC OS Ltd. a number of hardware developers have emerged. RiscStation and Microdigital both have ARM7500FE based systems. Millipede Graphics, a developer of video graphics hardware is working on a rather interesting StrongARM based system called Imago.Castle Technology has taken over production of Acorn's systems and has updated them to give the A7000 Oddesey and Kinetic Risc PC.
• Moving back a bit in Acorn history, there are a number of places where information about the BBC Micro can be found. The BBC Lives! website is a particularly good place to go for information as is the 8 Bit Software site run by Chris Richardson.
• Over the years I have used a number of Apple systems and I've always been impressed with them. I currently have a 'Beige' G3 Desktop and a Powerbook 5300CE. Their latest systems are both asthetically pleasing and very nice electronic designs. I am particularly impressed with the G4 Cube.
• In 1998 I bough a used Sun SparcStation IPX from GSTek in the US for the rather nice price of $50 (sadly the shipping cost was not inconsiderable). If you are after a used Sun system then this could be a good place to look.

And now for some pages belonging to friends, aquaintances and general hangers-on:

• My brother Sam has a website, although I'm not sure how often he actually gets arround to updating it!
• The person mostly responsible for the continued smooth running of confusion.org, Matthew Slattery, also has a page on this server. You never know, he migh even put some content into his spiffy new perl-script generated pages one day.
• Another inhabitant of this server is Clare Izard. Her pages are a good place to find more links on, and have a fair few photos including some of other people featured in these links. Rather well maintained, at least when she's not off prancing or sitting on the grass!
• Another good place to look if you're after some photos is Marta's pages. Be warned though, unless you're prepared to face the greatest animated GIF experience of your life this is no place for you! Interesting enough, there doesn't seem to be much mention of her excellent brick laying abilities on this site.
• Collector of infeasible bits of rusty engineering, historic ice boats of uncertain origin and rather too large chainsaws Alec Gunner has some web pages. He has even threatened to write a page about the aforementioned ice boat, Samson.
• Mr Nick Reed (or 'Ncik' as he undoubtedly prefers not to be known) has a fair wealth of stuff on his site, including some fine information about the Isle Of Wight, his home for many years.
• If pages about the Melton and Oakham Waterway Society, libelous (alledgedly) e-zines and more Amstrad CPC information than you could possible take in one viewing are what you're after then the website of Richard Fairhurst is the place for you to go. Actually go there anyway, it shows some rather nice web design.
• If after the above you need to get back to the basics and just go and play with a bit of string, then why not try the Java version on Andrew Bolt's pages. He's also a dab hand at writing interactive cabages, so I'm told.